Title :
Tunable spectral enhancement of supercontinuum with long-period gratings
Author :
Bolger, Jeremy A. ; Yeom, Dong-Il ; Marshall, Graham D. ; Austin, Dane R. ; Kuhlmey, Boris T. ; Withford, Mick J. ; de Sterke, C.M. ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Author_Institution :
ARC Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
We demonstrate tunable spectral enhancement of supercontinuum with a long-period grating. The spectral loss of the grating evolves into a peak whose position can be tuned by varying the temperature or the ambient index around the grating.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; optical fibres; optical losses; refractive index; supercontinuum generation; ambient index; fiber-generated supercontinuum; long-period gratings; spectral loss; tunable spectral enhancement; Fiber gratings; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical solitons; Resonance; Scanning probe microscopy; Supercontinuum generation; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Internet, 2007 and the 2007 32nd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. COIN-ACOFT 2007. Joint International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-0-9775657-3-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-9775657-3-3
DOI :
10.1109/COINACOFT.2007.4519160
